Betty Forbes, Compiler, Political Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3549
Correspondence by West Virginia and United States Congressmen to Harold and Betty Forbes regarding various political issues, both local and national. Local issues include West Virginia riverboat gambling and a proposed tramway at Cooper's Rock State Forest. There are responses written by Brian Gallagher, Sarah A. Minear, Joe Manchin III, Eric T. Blass, Michael Oliverio II, Robert C. Beach, Michael A. Buchanan, Larry E. Schifano, Stephen L. Cook, and Robert E. Trocin (state commissioner). Federal issues include the sales tax charged by out-of-state retailers and the proposed federal budget cuts potentially effecting health care and nutrition programs, like Women Infant Children (WIC). Responses were issued by Robert C. Byrd, Harley O. Staggers, David Michael Staton, Robert H. Mollohan, Nick J. Rahall, and Clive Benedict. There are also miscellaneous letters that relate to other matters of proposed legislation in the 1980's, a brochure titled 'Your Key to Information About the West Virginia Legislature,' and a letter by Phil Conley to Mrs. Evelyn Randolph in 1960.
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